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re: Hard drive shows in BIOS but not in Windows
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Malcolm Fowler
(1536 messages posted)
Hi CK, Thanks for the quick response... I understand what you are saying - just
didn't know this before I started! - problem is that the old M/B had completely died
so it is not possible to reboot with the old mother board to recover drivers etc.. Looks
like a repair install is the only option however I was trying to avoid this as this
upgrade/repair is meant to be a surprise for my son and I didn't want to have to
ask him for his 2000 disk!! I understand there may be a way round this using a boot
disk and manually installing the correct IDE drivers (?) I'm running the IDE in
DMA mode I had not considered an excess of RAM for 98SE - could this be why I have
been getting "not enough memory" messages?! As always the best intentioned and
"simple" upgrades (I was just passing on my second hand board/processor and memory
after upgrading my own machine) result in many frustrations.... Thanks again
On Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 5:37 pm, C K wrote:
>In addition to Don's post, when you changed motherboards, W2K and XP will not auto
>detect the change in the IDE controller as will Win 98, change the driver and boot.
> W2K and XP have to run a repair install to reconfigure and change the IDE controller
>driver. There are other ways to fix it but you have to start the process BEFORE
>you change motherboards and it isn't for the faint of heart. The easist way is
do
>the repair install and let windows do it. You may have to use the F6 option to
load
>the IDE driver if the install fails just in case W2k doesn't have a compatible driver.
> (haven't worked with that particular MB yet) How are you running Win 98 on that
>hardware? Are the IDE channel(s) running in DMA or legacy/PIO mode? Most of the
>time Win9X will choke with that much memory even when you limit the memory IME.
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